What Buddha Lo Is Making at Robb Report’s Culinary Masters New Orleans
Buddha Lo is taking his culinary talents to the Big Easy.
The two-time Top Chef winner, who’s also in charge at the tasting-menu spot Huso (one of our best new restaurants in America of 2025) in New York City, will be the head toque of a hands-on cooking class at Robb Report’s Culinary Masters in New Orleans. And you can pop into the kitchen alongside the star chef yourself, as well as experience plenty of other delicious food-focused adventures on the docket, at the culinary event from May 7 to 9.
At Culinary Masters, Lo is transforming the traditional English breakfast into an ode to New Orleans, adding a dose of the city’s many flavors and cultures into the cuisine. That includes dishes such as shrimp po-boy toast with caviar, coddled egg with andouille and tasso, and old bay hollandaise. You’ll get to sample your own dishes, of course, with extra offerings being whipped up for you to try, too, which you will be served in the Four Seasons New Orleans River Ballroom and Foyer.
A caviar dish at Huso.
Cayla Zahoran
Lo is no stranger to cooking up excellence, of course. The chef started his journey in the kitchen in his family’s Chinese restaurant in Port Douglas, Australia. Lo then jumped to Melbourne’s acclaimed William Angliss Institute, which led him to nab a scholarship to the Michelin two-star Château Cordeillan-Bages in France. From there, the toque spent time cooking in kitchens at the Restaurant Gordon Ramsay and Eleven Madison Park, and he remains the only contestant to win back-to-back seasons of Top Chef (in 2022 and 2023).
Now, though, Lo has opened his own endeavor in Tribeca. Huso made its first debut in 2019 but has since returned in a new locale (nestled inside a Marky’s Caviar) that’s more than double the size of its previous spot. The serene, oak-filled space, one of our most new beautiful restaurants of last year, is home to just 28 seats, and the menu is filled with his own flair—think plenty of caviar and dry-aged duck—and odes to his previous kitchens. Lo will carry all that with him to Culinary Masters, too.
